I have been a bit slack with the cook-update. Being run ragged with uni duties (students! lab!), my mid-term review, conferences, soil blog and general lethargy means my creativity has come to a bit of a standstill. Even though I made some yummy Daal Makhani with spinach and pumpkin, and a Rustic Roast Pumpkin tart with basil-pesto greens, they somehow didn't seem inspirational enough to blog about. Especially after eating Angus' delicious pork ramen *drool*
So, given my lack of inspiration and readers keen for me to keep blogging, I thought you all might like to help me get my cooking-groove back on! I am asking you to give me some ideas, as my cooking co-pilots, and I will randomly choose a combination of ideas and create. A dinner party (in our tiny flat) may also have to coincide with the event (if I am not dead from writing my epic thesis... blurgh).
Help me come up with a new idea by submitting in the comments section below one idea for each of the following:
1. Meal type (breakfast, lunch, dinner, break, snack etc)
2. Preferences (vegan, gluten-free, vegetarian, % sustainable, under $X)
3. One ingredient you want me to use (please, no offal)
4. One condiment you want me to use
5. Cooking style (wok, oven, microwave etc)
You have until Friday 2nd July to submit comments. I will draw them (out of a hat, random generator, blind twirl and point?!?) on Saturday to make something amazing!
Happy eating!
June 28, 2010
June 1, 2010
Hubble Bubble Brew and Bubble
I miss my brew kit.
Moving into a flat this meant that I firstly had to downscale my veggie garden to pots (!!), but I also had to sell my home brew gear. I made some great brews including a caramel stout, ginger beer and honey wheat beer. However, it went to a good home. My friend Paul is now making Gluten Free beer with the kit, and saving a tonne of money. Plus, he is having a great time learning and being creative! So many recipes, such little drinking time.
The weekend just passed was spent in Melbourne visiting our old friend James. He lives just around the corner from Chapel St, and its marvelous Chapel St Cellars. On the Friday night, we wandered past and saw fridge after fridge after fridge of amazing beers and ciders. Not only were we dumbstruck at the selection, but you could purchase a beer and sit down in the shop (on a couch, stool or crate) and drink your selection! This is something that would never happen in rule-central Canberra. In a giddy daze of awesomeness, the five of us chose our vice and sat down happily. Here is our evenings selection:
My favourite was the Meantime Chocolate Stout. The first stout that actually honestly tasted like real chocolate, and not like some strange chocolate flavouring. The Rekorderlig Strawberry and Lime cider was also divine. Honorable mention to the St Ambrose Stout (caramel!!) and Crack Shot, which claims is a drink for someone "who does not believe in the phrase 'the better sex' ". Now Canberrans just have to picket Plonk to order some of these tasty beers...
Contrary to peoples beliefs, the beer consumption on Friday night did not cause the bump on my head, nor the concussion. That was all pure Jess.
Moving into a flat this meant that I firstly had to downscale my veggie garden to pots (!!), but I also had to sell my home brew gear. I made some great brews including a caramel stout, ginger beer and honey wheat beer. However, it went to a good home. My friend Paul is now making Gluten Free beer with the kit, and saving a tonne of money. Plus, he is having a great time learning and being creative! So many recipes, such little drinking time.
The weekend just passed was spent in Melbourne visiting our old friend James. He lives just around the corner from Chapel St, and its marvelous Chapel St Cellars. On the Friday night, we wandered past and saw fridge after fridge after fridge of amazing beers and ciders. Not only were we dumbstruck at the selection, but you could purchase a beer and sit down in the shop (on a couch, stool or crate) and drink your selection! This is something that would never happen in rule-central Canberra. In a giddy daze of awesomeness, the five of us chose our vice and sat down happily. Here is our evenings selection:
My favourite was the Meantime Chocolate Stout. The first stout that actually honestly tasted like real chocolate, and not like some strange chocolate flavouring. The Rekorderlig Strawberry and Lime cider was also divine. Honorable mention to the St Ambrose Stout (caramel!!) and Crack Shot, which claims is a drink for someone "who does not believe in the phrase 'the better sex' ". Now Canberrans just have to picket Plonk to order some of these tasty beers...
Contrary to peoples beliefs, the beer consumption on Friday night did not cause the bump on my head, nor the concussion. That was all pure Jess.
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